Rachel Pull Factors

My mother, Rachel, was an immigrant who came here as a skilled worker, from Shanghai, China. My mom was educated in China with an university degree. Her major was English, so she learned a lot about the western world. This opened her eyes to the other countries that were different from China. Also, she had an aunt that lived in Calgary who told her about Canada. My mom worked as a manager of an American company that imported silk products from China. This job was very demanding, which made my mom very tired. She hoped to come to Canada to find a more peaceful life.
Push Factors
The push factors that made my mom want to leave China and come to Canada was because of the corruption throughout the Chinese Government. The old China was governed by a tight fisted Communist party, where there was no democracy and people had no control over their lives, so many people lived a poor life. Starting from the 1980s, China was going through a very big change where the government opened it’s doors to the western countries, so the people of China could see how other people in different countries lived. But on the other hand, people saw that there was wealth in the world, which made them long for it. Furthermore, my mom was disappointed with the government, as people’s success wasn’t built on how hard they worked, but instead was built on who they were as people and who they knew. …show more content…
Also, Canada has a better healthcare than China, so that was another thing that drew her to Canada. In Canada, people had freedom to express who they were, without being punished. Also, here people had the right to vote. My mom tried to start her own business of importing clothing from China, but that didn’t work out, so she worked as an administrative assistant and then as a legal